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Taking A Little Break (but we’ll be back soon!)

Friday, March 1, 2013 by Jessika Hepburn

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It has been the busiest month of all time for our little family! I’ve tried super hard to keep all the balls rolling with moving into our new house and brand new site but our sweet new house turned out to be waaaaay more work then we had thought and we’ve uncovered all sorts of fun stuff like rotting wood, mice (are really not very nice), and other grand old house gifts. At the same time our new website is taking longer than we hoped to get all set up and we’ve experienced a few set backs. I feel like I’ve been running in a blind panic since I got home from SLC and it has started to catch up to me. In order to get us all moved into our real life home and our virtual one OMHG will take a wee break until Tuesday, March 5th when we’ll get back to posting as usual. This is the first time I’ve ever delayed starting a new theme and shifting a number of scheduled posts-it is especially hard since it is our 3rd annual ethics theme which is one of my favourite topics to explore with you! I just can’t see a way around it this time although I have learned some good lessons about not setting myself up to have two major life changes happening at once.

Making our dreams happen usually involves months or years of planning and work followed by a huge rush of gettingitdone.  We are right in the middle of the make-it-work part and have been up every night until 2 or 3 AM then again with the girls at 7am to pull it all together.  This move has been a year in the making and I can promise you we won’t be doing it again any time soon! Think of us this weekend while we paint around our small beasties, move our stuff that has been in storage for 8 months in Chris’s parents garage, and dig ourselves out of the snowstorm that is coming tonight.  Chris and I have moved over 15 times (including from coast to coast) in the 10 years we’ve been together and we have some pretty ridiculous moving stories, right now we are exhausted and want it to be over but we know soon this crazy year of moving will be another silly story to share with friends like you!

I would love if you would keep us company by sharing your own moving stories/mishaps/adventures/lessons learned in the comments-it will remind me that there is a light (and a bed) at the end of this move. 

Dusty paint covered hugs to all of you- see you in March from our house on the hill!

You can also follow along our adventures on Instagram when I manage to grab a second to snap a picture:)

White paint is the ultimate magic eraser!
Nook (called a Lunenburg Bump in Nova Scotia) between the girls rooms-plaster is damaged so need to wait on painting this.
Built in drawers in the girls room-found evidence of mice in these.
Old houses come with old problems but also beautiful history like this lovely old knob (& peep hole!)
We are painting the house white to give us a clean slate to start with but I couldn’t resist this colour for an accent!
It might be old but it is ours! And the backyard is magic.
My lovely Mr. Chris painting the ceiling in the girls rooms.
This is the face Chris made when we discovered some ugliness behind the kitchen cupboards:(

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